If you have ever used the book The Salamander Room by Ann Mazer, you will love this accompanying unit! Use this unit to take Brian's ideas to see if the habitat he wants to build will really give the salamander the freedom that it needs. Discuss habitats, salamander life cycles, and take a look at

This spring, learn about salamanders with this hand drawn coloring page and lifecycle activity. Included in this digital print are: a coloring page, a cut and paste lifecycle worksheet, and a page with tips and tricks to find your own salamanders. Kids will have a blast coloring the page, and will

This is a SmartBoard lesson that builds student question skills using the informational text. The photographs and text come from Cameron Bredeson's book "Fun Facts about Salamanders." The lesson has students predict if the author will tell them about the animals; diet, habitat, or body. Next the stu

Students practice handwriting by tracing over the sentence on the 1st page and also learn a little about the salamander by answering the questions on the 2nd page which would make a great homelearning activity! Students can also color the picture.

This is a BUNDLE of 5 of our Animal themed, multileveled passages sets. Each set has multiple leveled passages on a particular type of animal. The animal themes are: Fish, Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians and Birds. Each passage title has 6 passages of the same animal focused passage, at six different

This unit is a fabulous way to incorporate research skills, informational text, and fold-its into studying about the classification of animals. Students create a fun and engaging lapbook with this unit. The fold-its in this unit can also be easily incorporated into a interactive notebook for scien

This is a set of eight realistic clip art images representing the stages of a tiger salamander’s life. All images are provided in 300 dpi and in both color and white-fill formats.
The images are:
Tiger Salamander Adult (white fill)
Tiger Salamander Adult (color)
Tiger Salamander Larvae (white fil

This is a set of 4 amphibian themed, multileveled passages. There are 4 different sets of passages, each set is on a different, amphibian themed, topic. Each set has 6 passages of the same amphibian focused passage, at six different text levels, A- I. This allows all students to access the same text

This lesson plan is written for the text, The Salamander Room using the comprehension strategy connect.
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This lesson plan goes with the Sleuth magazine component of the new reading series, Reading Street, by Pearson. The article referenced is not included in this download.
Included in this download are the Sleuth Lesson Plan, Student Note-taking sheet, Writing Graphic Organizer, and Exemplar Written R

Spelling and Vocabulary activities to go along with Fourth Grade Reading Street story, "Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Slippery Salamander" These activities give several opportunities to practice the words in a variety of ways. **Recently updated with additional activities**
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This is a reading comprehension PowerPoint presentation using the children's story The Salamander Room. This PowerPoint provides students with an opportunity to read some of the text whole class and answer comprehension questions about the story by finding the answers in the text. This presentation

Save 25% by purchasing all of these products on "The Hearth & the Salamander" together!
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1. Narrative Writing Prompts that are PARCC aligned for Part I: "The Hearth & the Salamander." Product includes individual worksheets for students as well as an exte

This download contains an exercises to be done in pairs, a writing prompt for a paragraph, and a podcast URL with questions. The lessons are designed to get students thinking about how difficult it is to change, so when the student sees Montag changing from a non-reader to a reader, they will unders

No Prep Work lesson. All the Research has been done for you to teach all you need to know about Amphibians. Amphibian means two-livesAmphibian spends part of its life in water and other part of land.There are over 4,000 different kinds of amphibians.Some common types are:frogstoads salamanders and

Get to know your students by having them complete this fun banner! Simply print a banner for each student on a full sheet of paper. Have students fill out the banner and color it (I assign a different banner color for each section I teach). Then have students cut out the banner and hang it in the cl

This product can be used independently to reinforce learning about the life cycle of a salamander. I use it in conjunction with a Vernal Pond Study and this resource is also included in my bundle on that topic. This product includes: 2 color samples, one hand colored and one computer colored. These

This no-prep Book Study has 39 engaging Common Core-aligned activities/printables designed to delve deeper into Salamander Sky by Katy Farber. Many of the printables are differentiated by content, allowing you to address differing ability levels in your classroom. Since the printables cover a range

Welcome your students back to school with this great first day activity! This all about me flipbook has students share facts about themselves so you can get to know them. I have used this as a bell ringer activity during the first week of school by having students complete one page each day. Just pr